{"id":45373,"date":"2022-02-28T13:11:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-28T13:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bishop-musengamana-replaces-nzakamwita-of-byumba-diocese\/"},"modified":"2022-03-05T07:28:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T07:28:02","slug":"bishop-musengamana-replaces-nzakamwita-of-byumba-diocese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bishop-musengamana-replaces-nzakamwita-of-byumba-diocese\/","title":{"rendered":"Bishop Musengamana replaces Nzakamwita of Byumba Diocese"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Nzakamwita is replaced three years after requesting Pope Francis to grant him retirement. <\/p>\n

Musengamana, the new Bishop of Byumba Diocese was born on 21st August 1967. He was ordained priest on 18th May 1997. <\/p>\n

He holds PhD in Theology obtained from Germany in 2006. <\/p>\n

Bishop Nzakamwita has told IGIHE that it has been three years since he submitted the request for retirement which is reached at the age of 75. <\/p>\n

\u201cI can now retire as he has been appointed,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Bishop Nzakamwita thanked Christians of Byumba Diocese who stood with him during his 25-year service leading the Diocese. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to encourage them to work with my successor and consider evangelization as the axis of development of the diocese and its Christians,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Bishop Nzakamwita has revealed that the diocese has increased parishes from 12 to 23 for the past 25 years. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had 700,000 Christians that have increased to nearly 800,000 from a total population of more than 1.7 million. The diocese only had three priests where I assumed duties because others had been killed. I became the fourth. As of today, the number has increased to 150,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

{{Who is Bishop Musengamana}}<\/p>\n

Papias Musengamana was born on August 21, 1967 in Byimana, Diocese of Kabgayi. After attending primary school in Mwendo (1974-1982), he entered the Petit S\u00e9minaire Saint L\u00e9on in Kabgayi (1982-1988). <\/p>\n

Musengamana attended the Preparatory Seminary of Rutongo (1988-1989) and the Major Seminary of Philosophy of Kabgayi (1989-1991). He completed his Theology studies at the Universit\u00e9 Catholique d \u2019Afrique Centrale-Institut Catholique de Yaound\u00e9 in Cameroon (1991-1996) where he obtained a Licentiate in Biblical Theology. He was ordained a priest on May 18, 1997.<\/p>\n

Since his priestly ordination, Musengamana has held the following positions: Secretary of the Bishop (1997-1999); Doctorate in Biblical Theology at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universit\u00e4t Freiburg in Germany (1999-2005); Parish Vicar in Kamonyi (2005-2006); Diocesan Treasurer (2006-2013); Vicar General of Kabgayi (2013-2017) and since 2018 he has been Rector of the Grand S\u00e9minaire Saint Charles Borrom\u00e9e of Nyakibanda.<\/p>\n

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Bishop Nzakamwita is replaced three years after requesting Pope Francis to grant him retirement. Musengamana, the new Bishop of Byumba Diocese was born on 21st August 1967. He was ordained priest on 18th May 1997. He holds PhD in Theology obtained from Germany in 2006. Bishop Nzakamwita has told IGIHE that it has been three […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45373"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45373"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}